PDF Properties
Using a custom set of XML tags inside your HTML, you can insert both custom metadata as well as instructions for how the PDF would be viewed in a PDF viewer application (subject of course to that application supporting those features).
Options
You use the (optional) tag <pdfproperties> and within that tag you
can insert <metainfo> and <pdfpreferences>
sections as shown in the instructions below. Within the
<metainfo> tag, you can add <prop> tags
with @name, @value attribute pairs with the data you wish
to store in the PDF metadata. Anything without one of the recognized, standard PDF
names (author, title, subject,
creator, keywords) are stored in custom metadata in
the PDF.
The <pdfpreferences> section allows you to insert one or more
<pref> tags with specific @name,
@value pairs that control the way the resulting PDF is displayed
with a viewer that supports standard PDF view attributes. The support
name, @value pairs are listed below and grouped into
all the available categories:
General PDF Options
These options let you control some general information about the generated PDF.
bookmarks - sets whether PDF bookmarks are generated or not. The default
is "false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want
bookmarks in PDF. Note that bookmarks are only generated for interpreted
hierarchical information. All h1 elements and there following
h2 elements and so on. Skipping levels will break the sequence and
the bookmarks will not be correct.
pdf-version - sets the PDF version number. The default is version 1.5
for Cloudformatter but you set @value to values like "1.3", "1.4",
"1.6" or "1.7" if you wish to change the version. Be aware thar some other features
could be disabled by setting the version too low.
compress - sets whether the PDF is compressed or not. The default is
"true" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "false" if you want
uncompressed PDF.
linearize - sets whether the PDF is linearized or not. The default is
"false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want to
optimize a long PDF for web view.
PDF View Options
These options let you control how the PDF when opened appears to the end user.
view-mode - Choose from one of the following:
auto- If there are bookmarks in the document, the bookmarks pane is displayed. Otherwise, all auxiliary panes are hidden.show-none- All auxiliary panes are hidden.show-bookmarks- The bookmarks pane is displayed.show-thumbnails- The thumbnails pane is displayed.full-screen- The document is displayed in full screen-mode.
initial-zoom - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Page scaling is not specified.fit- The page is scaled to fit completely into the view port.fit-width- The page is scaled so that its width matches the width of the view port.fit-height- The page is scaled so that its height matches the height of the view port.###or####%- The page is scaled by the number or percentage specified.
page-layout - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Uses settings of viewer application.single-page- Displays one page at a time.continuous- Displays pages continuously in one column.two-columns-left- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-columns-right- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the right.two-pages-left- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-pages-right- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the right.
viewer-preferences - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
hide-toolbar- Hides the viewer application's tool bars when the document is active.hide-menubar- Hides the viewer application's menu bar when the document is active.hide-window-ui- Hides user interface elements in the document's window (such as scroll bars and navigation controls), leaving only the document's contents displayed.fit-window- Resizes the document's window to fit the size of the first displayed page.center-window- Positions the document's window in the center of the screen.display-document-title- Controls whether the window's title bar displays the document title taken from the "title" metadata field.
PDF Security
These options allow you to specify owner and user security in the PDF output. User-level security can inject a password to be used to open the PDF, while owner-level security can control what can be done with the PDF (like printing it or copying the data from it).
userpassword - Sets the user password that must be entered to view the
PDF. There are no options, the @value passed is the password to be
used.
ownerpassword - Sets the owner password that must be entered to enable
advanced processing of the PDF. There are no options, the @value passed
is the password to be used. An ownerpassword is used to lock down certain privledges
that an owner will grant to a recipient of the PDF. Without the owner password,
recipients can be restricted from certain things. By default they are restricted
from everything, and you can then specify what additional things you allow by using
userpriviledges.
userpriviledges - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
print- Enables printing the document.modify- Enables editing the document.copy- Enables copying text and images from the document to the clipboard.annotate- Enables adding notations to the document and changing the field values.
PDF Pre-Press Options
These allow you to specify crop marks, bleeds and registration marks to be applied to the PDF.
crop-offset - specify offsets from the meaningful content on the page to
the edges of the physical media (/MediaBox entry in the PDF page dictionary). Its
value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from the edges of the
page area to the corresponding edges of the /MediaBox. Rules for expanding the value
are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
bleed - specify the bleeds — an extra space around the page area into
which the contents of the page may protrude (/BleedBox entry in the PDF page
dictionary). Its value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from
the edges of the page area to the corresponding edges of the /BleedBox. Rules for
expanding the value are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
crop-mark-width - defines line width for the crop marks, setting it to 0
disables drawing of crop marks.
bleed-mark-width - defines line width for the bleed marks, setting it to
0 disables drawing of bleed marks.
printer-mark - specify additional SVG images to be drawn in the offset
area surrounding the page (specified by crop-offset and bleed parameters). Printer
marks are clipped to the outside of the bleed rectangle. The @value is
a URL to an SVG you have. This sample has two URLs (one for a colorbar and one for a
registration mark) you can also use if you like.
The following code is what is behind this page for producing the PDF. Of course, you would only see the things supported by your PDF viewer you use. If you wish to see them all in action, then use "download" and Adobe Reader to view the PDF.
Recent changes in some browsers will not treat this XML as XML. Instead it tries (incorrectly) to not close tags. For best results, be sure to use open and close tags and not a self-closing tag.
<pdfproperties style="display:none;">
<metainfo>
<prop name="author" value="Xportability LLC"></prop>
<prop name="title"
value="Xportability Cloudformatter: Showing Custom
PDF Properties"></prop>
<prop name="subject" value="A Cloudformatter Document"></prop>
<prop name="creator" value="css2pdf@cloudformatter.com"></prop>
<prop name="keywords" value="CSS, PDF, Cloudformatter"></prop>
<prop name="custom1" value="value1"></prop>
<prop name="custom2" value="value2"></prop>
<prop name="custom3" value="value3"></prop>
<prop name="custom4" value="value4"></prop>
</metainfo>
<pdfpreferences>
<pref name="bookmarks" value="true"></pref>
<pref name="pdf-version" value="1.6"></pref>
<pref name="view-mode" value="auto"></pref>
<pref name="initial-zoom" value="fit-height"></pref>
<pref name="page-layout" value="two-columns-left"></pref>
<pref name="viewer-preferences" value="display-document-title"></pref>
<pref name="crop-offset" value="0.5in"></pref>
<pref name="crop-mark-width" value="1px"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/registration.svg"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/colorbar.svg"></pref>
</pdfpreferences>
</pdfproperties>
Sample Output H2
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Sample Output H3
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Sample Output H4
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Sample Output H4
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Sample Output H3
Ut esse in magna labore aliquyam elitr gubergren vero justo elitr facilisi dolor dolores at. Clita consequat doming amet gubergren dolor wisi nibh dolore aliquip facilisis kasd iriure facilisi. Dolores sadipscing dolor diam autem. Dolores sadipscing amet kasd vero autem tation dolor ea. Dolor et ex zzril exerci duo dolores et accusam elitr labore lorem congue te. Ipsum est dolores ut congue sed gubergren et sit rebum veniam sit illum invidunt et lorem diam. Consetetur elitr quis diam takimata sed. Elitr justo justo eirmod amet justo nibh vero. Diam eum sadipscing. Vel dolor elitr amet ea et sit.
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Sample Output H4
Erat dolore diam at labore sed et dolores suscipit lobortis justo diam lorem sadipscing volutpat magna. No commodo dolores amet gubergren diam diam aliquyam. In stet accusam no aliquip et dolore magna elitr sit. Sed justo magna cum tempor duo amet at option duo duis nonummy. Lobortis nam dolore sit est justo amet lorem. Consetetur ex sed rebum rebum sanctus sanctus ut duo dolor dolores veniam nulla suscipit sed stet adipiscing.
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Sample Output H4
Id sed nibh amet sed. Voluptua rebum sadipscing dolor. Tempor iusto magna consetetur est nulla voluptua kasd diam lorem stet sed accusam lorem ea sit laoreet. Qui ullamcorper magna rebum. Erat kasd euismod sit magna in iusto dolore dolor. Et gubergren erat kasd sed clita justo amet. Vel duis feugiat.
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More Sample Output H2
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Sample Output H3
Labore dolore illum lorem. Nonumy clita magna sit eirmod at aliquam rebum sit dolore eos ut accusam ea. Elit ipsum dolor no takimata gubergren nisl clita ipsum sea amet sadipscing clita gubergren et. Kasd amet volutpat elitr eirmod sadipscing sanctus nostrud duis tempor diam dignissim erat sanctus. Vulputate adipiscing kasd dolore minim nam nibh et duo invidunt wisi kasd vero in dolor et lorem. Amet sit liber aliquam nisl voluptua est nulla ut enim et et. Vel nihil ea laoreet. Amet kasd et velit lorem no lorem sanctus lorem dolore enim feugiat amet veniam. Takimata autem at et duo sed ut nulla invidunt et clita ipsum ut ipsum invidunt et no nonumy et. Sadipscing sed quis elitr magna.
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Sample Output H4
Delenit ipsum rebum assum feugait lorem sed voluptua sadipscing. Vero ut at tempor. Tempor feugiat invidunt te eu et invidunt feugiat lorem ipsum no sed tempor cum facilisis kasd. Liber lorem stet consetetur accumsan clita. Eros feugiat magna sit gubergren consetetur nonummy gubergren sit justo sadipscing eirmod et ipsum dolor et vero. Rebum sed duo.
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Sample Output H4
Velit amet kasd labore lorem sed amet no. Est et nam labore dolor eos duo magna no. Diam assum diam ipsum ipsum takimata sed dolor feugiat duo et sadipscing labore sanctus no. Dolore accusam sanctus consetetur. Sanctus facilisis illum dignissim et facilisis ut accusam nibh at consequat eu. Vel eirmod rebum consetetur no sed accusam vero ad no vero illum elitr duis at volutpat. Autem justo luptatum diam accusam clita takimata ut consequat amet voluptua zzril diam consetetur.
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Sample Output H3
Ut imperdiet et vel dolore magna rebum dolor facilisi est et eu. Magna eos sanctus nulla vero sadipscing lorem dolore ea voluptua ipsum et diam sadipscing ex. Duo justo voluptua dolor dignissim sed dolor at eirmod duo stet eirmod feugiat erat aliquip erat sit at. Sanctus magna consetetur nulla commodo. Dolor nonumy volutpat justo rebum dolore nonumy eu et ipsum dolor lorem. Nostrud aliquam diam amet et et sed adipiscing et nonumy diam eos ad dolore est consetetur. Iriure ut sit at aliquyam et kasd vero eos et at adipiscing feugait at. Vel accusam aliquyam et aliquyam ex et et justo in accusam lorem ea aliquyam kasd erat soluta labore.
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Sample Output H4
Tempor illum est nisl ea iusto. Tempor sed kasd. Nonumy in duo. Voluptua ad consetetur vero sed eos duo nibh accusam justo vero nonumy dolor. Et tempor euismod accusam eos diam et iusto labore. Est aliquyam amet dolor tation dolore tempor eirmod nonumy diam invidunt magna. Praesent elitr erat dolor no ut ipsum diam et duo. Clita tincidunt dolores enim nonumy et praesent laoreet no.
Diam sed dolores justo nonummy et ut eleifend tempor et cum sit clita commodo consetetur. Delenit lorem aliquyam erat accusam stet rebum suscipit et sea tempor erat amet kasd augue dolores gubergren eos. Nam lorem diam euismod velit diam commodo autem tempor sea eos. Et consetetur et justo ut labore amet dolor vero vero no ut sit sit invidunt duo. Volutpat vulputate at rebum eos eirmod est suscipit clita in diam aliquyam. Doming ea gubergren eirmod praesent tincidunt dolores. Vero et euismod labore eleifend sed id est ut sed dolor illum eos nobis accusam ea no aliquyam. Consetetur erat vero sadipscing gubergren no consetetur et sadipscing takimata aliquyam at kasd wisi labore sea lorem.
Sample Output H4
Elitr no erat ex molestie vel. Ipsum euismod sadipscing. Consetetur eum ullamcorper dolores et dolor ipsum diam ipsum at. Sit commodo nulla amet elit sed ea eos hendrerit tempor tempor facilisis eirmod erat. Te tempor nibh et diam qui nonumy duo rebum nobis eos ad dolore lorem sanctus aliquyam. Lorem ipsum stet duis nonumy tincidunt autem dolor velit blandit et tation ut. Enim invidunt sea est eleifend erat aliquyam nisl dignissim sea gubergren labore veniam dolore imperdiet eirmod est velit sanctus.
Vel duo odio erat diam sit tincidunt. Dolor sit kasd aliquam sit eos nulla ipsum kasd accumsan. Congue dolore ex est nonumy ut. Et justo magna illum et consequat ut sed ipsum amet accusam blandit et vel et no. Est sanctus duis voluptua eirmod et duo eirmod clita. Tempor id ipsum rebum et ipsum clita et est sed assum justo erat dolor takimata euismod in eu diam.